Ebook
A Dark Night's Work
Ebook · Sovereign
A Dark Night's Work
- Author
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Series
- Timeless Classics
- Language
- English
- Length
- 190 pages
- ISBN
- 9781911495130
- Published
- 26 June 2016
- Imprint
- Sovereign
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Dark Night
- morality
- social order
- realism
- psychological
- philosophical
- provoking
- social analysis
- adventure
Description
A country lawyer, Edward Wilkins has an artistic and literary personality, unsuited to his social position as the son of a successful lawyer who takes over his father's practice in the provincial town of Hamley. His legal representation of the local gentry and nobility leads him to try fitting into their social circles, only to be mocked and treated with derision. He develops a drinking problem and spends more money than he can afford to in his attempts to be an equal to his clients.